skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People figuring out ACE in old games utterly fascinates me. I remember seeing this in Super Mario World a couple years ago and I became a bit transfixed on how that was even possible.

I mean this in the best way, and I am being complimentary, but it's going to sound like I'm being a jerk: I love when really smart people spend a lot of time and effort doing completely useless things.

Is there any reason, at least immediately, to inject code into NES Tetris? No, I doubt it, but that's not the point. The point is figuring out what's possible, and figuring out what you can force some old code and a primitive computer to do. It might not be "useful" in the classical sense, but neither is a Sudoku puzzle or a crossword puzzle or playing NES Tetris to begin with.
Not sure what app you’ve installed to make it do that, but I’ve only experienced the opposite. Every Windows 10 laptop I’ve owned (4 of them) would never go to sleep and turn my bag into an oven if I forgot to manually shut down instead of closing the lid. Whereas my M1 MBP has successfully gone to sleep every lid close.
>As long as we get the building ‘for free’ (don’t have to consider/pay for the original costs to build it), it can definitely be retrofitted for many purposes somewhat economically.

...they could be used as home-offices perhaps?
Been a while since I've used a chromebook but iirc there's ALSO root access that's just a bit more difficult to access, and you do actually need to access it from time to time for various reasons, or at least you used to.
> How is this acceptable at all?

Because as you described, the only alternatives that exist are terrible experiences for basically everyone, so people are happy to pay to license a solution that solves their problems with minimal fuss.

Any number of people could respond to “use Android devices with everything except firmware built from source and signed by myself” with the same question.
As I've gotten older I've discovered that I really can't judge normalcy based on what I find natural to me. Every brain is different and abilities range. Some people visualize things in their head; some people have to talk out their thoughts; some people are more optimistic. If we are only grading on one very particular brain type then we are missing out on the opportunities for diverse thought patterns producing something even better than expected.
I would be interested in an analysis of how refusals to prosecute are or are not affecting statistics. If you stop prosecuting a certain crime, does it appear like that crime is happening less on paper?
Got any tips/suggestions on how not to be filtered out because of "formatting"? Got any great examples to share?
IRC was what was initially called multiplayer notepad.
I remember around 2010 seeing ads about how KLM/AF did a huge upgrade of their passenger handling system - and how they explicitly went with TN3270 talking to z/TPF application as the new main interface for agents to use.

At least at the time, it sounded like they made a completely new application... and explicitly went with this stack.

Now, before you point to Amadeus still being command oriented just like that, modern Amadeus is accessed over GUI client - even if you're going to use all console commands.

Meanwhile when I had to reschedule a flight due to a volcano exploding and grounding all planes, I got to see what the KLM/AF local agent did. Fullscreen red-on-black TN3270 session. Took only a moment to handle my case and throw in a few extras.
No it is a good question. Does private solar aid the lower class? Well "lower class" in South Africa means real poverty. So they certainly can't get solar themselves. As to whether higher income households going off-grid helps - its tricky I think.

On the one hand, private solar does lessen the burden on the grid. We currently have had a good few weeks without load shedding, one major contributing factor of which (acknowledged by Eskom themselves) has been a combination of good weather and off-grid solar households. But on the other hand, Eskom is increasingly deprived of the rates to pay for the large capital investments needed to upgrade the grid. Eskom has continually hiked those rates (which means more people are incentivized to go solar - it is a vicious cycle perhaps).

Our government is finally moving forward with a policy of allowing private enterprise to contribute to the grid. I think this will definitely help. But realistically, I think South Africa will have to deal with load shedding for a good few years.
> trials in browser games are usage-based?

In principle yes. That's because you want your players to be hooked before you first present them with the prospect to pay for an advantage. So you ensure a specific action is ingrained in muscle memory before it requires payment.
Ah, I would have just joined Zoom twice, once from my MBP, once from the iPad. But, yeah, if you're sharing apps from both devices, that's a bit of a PITA.

I'll have to try it the way you describe sometime just to see how it works for me.
You are I think wrong. IIRC commissioned ~2010-ish, and first (failed) flight test in 2019.

I do not think there is a world where NASA commissions something from Boeing, and it's kind of ready-ish 2 years later. There are meetings to be head! Congress folk to talk to! Overruns to be budgeted!
I would love to have something like this. Even better if it comes in a portable form for the occasional visit to the office.
Easy eliminate noise during EEG measurement
> Everyone is going crazy about edge AI, what am I missing?

If you clone a model and then bake in a more expensive model's correct/appropriate responses to your queries, you now have the functionality of the expensive model in your clone. For your specific use case.

The size of the resulting case-specific models are small enough to run on all kinds of hardware, so everyone's seeing how much work can be done on their laptop right now. One incentive for doing so is that your approaches to problems are constrained by the cost and security of the Q&A roundtrip.
No. If you get the time of use plan in Santa Clara it's 4 cents more on-peak vs. off-peak [1]. The situation with PG&E's rates is completely asinine and is a political failure more than anything else.

[1] https://www.siliconvalleypower.com/home/showpublisheddocumen...
Is there an sdk to work on gaming with unity with ipad Pro m4?
Head start? Boeing has 108 years of vast aerospace history and culture.

The mistakes on this project are well summarized by an Ars article this week, mostly coming down to the well known management issues plus an inability to operate in a fixed price procurement setting; everything about their organization depended on cost plus structures.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/05/the-surprise-is-not-th...
The Starliner stack is way less stupid than SLS.

It's less than 2x the price of SpaceX, whereas the SLS vs Falcon Heavy cost ratio is like 20x.
Weather scrubs are common, and not relevant to the success of a program.

GSE (Ground Servicing Equipment) are fairly common and fairly benign.

Valves on the rocket? Much, much more rare, and usually indicate some form of issue.
I love the idea of web components, I just wish slots weren't tied to shadow DOM.

Anecdotally it feels like they arrived right as headless/self-styled component libraries started to pick up steam, and things inverted to the point that not being able to have your "external" styles easily apply to the component became more of a problem than them being affected by random stray styles.
Being alive is inherently bad for the environment, and yet – by and large – all humans strive to do it every day. For the most part, I'm convinced that this is a net positive.
Wait so all this lets them pave a 100 meters a week (assemble bridge on one weekend, pave on Monday, then disassemble the bridge the next weekend after the asphalt has dried)? That seems horribly slow and expensive.
On the other hand, a $4000 mid-game Macbook doesn’t have a touchscreen and that’s a heresy. Granted, you can get the one with the emoji bar, but why interact using touch on a bar when you could touch the screen directly?

Maybe the end game for Apple isn’t the full convergence, but just having a touch screen on the Mac.
Considering that when the launch order came, MAD had probably already failed: Would you have obeyed the order and killed a few million people?
The difference when sleeping compared to resting or low activity work is that sleeping is about 60%-65% of resting from what I've found.[1] I'm not sure why we should assume that shouldn't be a problem. We could be close to a low oxygen situation prior to sleep, and then start sleeping and have hours for it to get worse.

We don't generally design safety regulations around "should" and averages, but instead when edge cases happen, as the magnitude of the outcome is very important to take into consideration. I'm not sure what you're trying to express with your comment.

1: https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/co2-persons-d_691.html
Yeah but a data structure is definitely some stuff one could grok in 1h.
No, the whole point of the WoS was that there were no distant speakers. Everything was single sourced, to the point where each speaker only carried a single instrument.
Absolutely, the government has been pushed for a few years now to allow for public enterprise to contribute to the grid. Our president recently announced that they are going to go ahead with this. I hope this is true.
Great! I'll definitely check this out. Thank you for taking the time to respond :)
I have done a few of these types of interviews. It's incredibly awkward. At one place, I was even issued a laptop, a badge and added to the Github organization. I mean, I guess? But it felt like I was starting work, not doing an interview. People there also didn't know if I was a new employee or who I was when I went to lunch and get snacks. I spent more time getting my local dev up and running than actually doing the task I was assigned, which they could have gathered the same information about me in a 30 minute interview.

If you can't determine from a few interviews you want to hire me or not, it's a no from me. It's a HUGE red flag if an employer can't seem to make up their mind so they have to resort to awkward "test drives" like this. If you have a job at the time already, it also makes it almost impossible to pull off without using PTO.

Add all these things together and you really don't want to work for a company who is very inexperienced in hiring such that they resort to tests like these. It shows they don't know how to interview, are not efficient with your time (and probably their time also), and a high chance they are non-technical.
If it's worth it, they'll transition to Vulcan. But given the timeline of the ISS, unclear their will be demand.
Check out A Foreshadowing of 20st Century Art: The Color and Geometry of Early 13th Century Turkish Carpets. Move forward to On the Nature of Order.
Wikipedia says

> Speed bumps (also called traffic thresholds, speed breakers or sleeping policemen) are a class of traffic calming devices that use vertical deflection to slow motor-vehicle traffic in order to improve safety conditions

It's just a difference of degree of deflection.
I was turned off to reading in 7th grade by a teacher that required mandatory books that were her favorites but the topics consisted of 1800s gilded age parties, gossip amongst the upper class of people at that time and absolutely no fantasy or adventure.

Before that I was the top reader in the summer reading program going back to first grade highest in the school for each grade level. After that class I kind of fell out of the practice of reading to enjoy books until I was out of college.

I picked up the habit of reading and listening to audiobooks in 2014 3 years after college because I was doing a lot of 6-8 hour drives between my home town and a vendor for a project.

If I could say one thing to that teacher, just because you like a book, forcing someone else to read that book doesn't make it a good book for that person.
My thoughts exactly. It's surprising that external online schema change tools for Postgres have only become a thing fairly recently! The only two I'm aware of are:

* pgroll: Written in Golang, first commits June 2023. https://github.com/xataio/pgroll

* pg-osc: Written in Ruby, first commits Dec 2021. https://github.com/shayonj/pg-osc

Meanwhile over in the MySQL and MariaDB ecosystem, external OSC tools have been around for quite some time, starting with oak-online-alter-table over 15 years ago. The most popular options today are pt-online-schema-change or gh-ost, but other battle-tested solutions include fb-osc, LHM, and the latest entry Spirit.
Nothing is true forever. Google wasn’t evil forever, Apple won’t value privacy forever.

Until we figure out how to have guarantees of forever, the best we can realistically do is evaluate companies and their products by their behavior now weighted by their behavior in the past.
Odroid-H4
> but it is about selling luxury hardware.

Somewhat true but things are changing. While there are plenty of “luxury” Apple devices like Vision Pro or fully decked out MacBooks for web browsing we no longer live in a world where tech are just lifestyle gadgets. People spend hours a day on their phones, and often run their life and businesses through it. Even with the $1000+/2-3y price tag, it’s simply not that much given how central role it serves in your life. This is especially true for younger generations who often don't have laptops or desktops at home, and also increasingly in poorer-but-not-poor countries (say eg Eastern Europe). So the iPhone (their best selling product) is far, far, far more a commodity utility than typical luxury consumption like watches, purses, sports cars etc.

Even in the higher end products like the MacBooks you see a lot of professionals (engineers included) who choose it because of its price-performance-value, and who don’t give a shit about luxury. Especially since the M1 launched, where performance and battery life took a giant leap.
Context Window is 32k (present in the blog). I suppose number of Params, MOE setup are intentionally not revealed. Numbers on well known benchmarks and comparison with Google and Open AI is also published later in the blog.
That's amazing.

It's terrifying to take a step back from this and think about how much incredibly sophisticated technology had to go into ensuring that we could wipe out the human race in minutes.

And then, of course, there's all the technology handling the safety guards. Because we obviously don't want to wipe out the human race in minutes, so we have all these protocols and failsafes to ensure that doesn't happen unless it's really supposed to happen.

All for ... nothing.

Nothing, in the sense that every time Russia built more ICBMs the US had to build more ICBMs. That tit-for-tat got to incredibly absurd levels.

So all of this ludicrously complex technologies, from the missiles travelling to space, the lauching of multiple guided warheads, the safety guards and nuclear weapons, the trillions of dollars ... for nothing. All a game of "mine is bigger than yours" for strategic deterence.

Hopefully it stays that way.
This actually does shift my view on founder-matching a little, in the positive direction.

I wonder if it's best to march into it like someone in a new city starting to date. I would guess that it's mostly a numbers game: apply to a lot of people you'd be compatible with, wait for their responses to winnow it down, then get serious about the handful that are left.
I do not understand your reply.
unfortunate that the acoustic cavitation frequency is just barely within the range some dogs can still perceive
I was hoping they would come out and say "and now developers can develop apps directly on their iPads with our new release of Xcode" but yeah, no. Don't know if the M4 with just 16GB of memory would be very comfortable for any pro workload.
An office to condo conversion is going to be luxury regardless.
I'll quote myself from elsewhere in this thread:

> Personally I think it’s better to do some good for the environment than no good for the environment. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. They should absolutely let us repair every device, but I’m glad they make the environmental efforts they currently do as well.
In countries where the news media is largely consolidated, there seems to be a campaign of news articles pro-return-to-work. My assumption is that the overlap in interests between rich connected news and media magnates and commercial property ownership is somewhat aligned.

In my opinion we have already crossed the rubicon on this topic and the pandemic caused a paradigm shift that means it’s very hard to put that genie back on the bottle, regardless of how many news articles they write.

Organizations are finding it extremely hard to hire if they have an in-office policy. Few people want to lose two hours a day commuting in cities like London and rammed into busy public transport which used to be the case.
A look at the past: atmospheric rivers inundating California could get worse
Did you read the article? It wasn’t a weather scrub. It was a faulty valve that ULA usually fixes by doing the hardware equivalent of turning it off and turning it back on again.
I assumed my parent was talking about ongoing conflicts and current mortality rates. Of which you’ll have to go all the way to Sudan to find similar numbers.
This seems quite apt for how I'm feeling the last few years. Thank you for this, I will look into it
Thanks, I think you're 100% right, it's the red tape more than the tech. My issue is that when an in house React component is poorly coded, it's trivial to inject css overrides or select internal elements of the component to change it's behavior. With web components, the events emitted are locked in, each sub element or worse sub web component is nested away and only accessible via the shadow dom making edge case or hot fix solutions that much more trouble to deal with. In both cases the ideal would be for the internal library maintainers to fix the issues or support the required features, but with ever long lead times, it's often necessary to work something out at the project level. The working out is much more abrasive with web components though.

In practice, this update is great for usability. But it's a sign that web components are still relevant, extending my time dealing with poorly built ones.
Not exactly: the wall of sound was only set up on stage. However, you could hear the music extremely clearly 1/4 mile away, due to the coherence. The delay towers were used before the WoS.
> I'm going to guess that all of those early internet pioneers that you mentioned also have fond stories of LSD.

What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff is exactly that. A dive into how psychedelic counterculture made its mark on folks at Stanford, folks at XEROX PARC, Doug Engelbart, Jim Fadiman, Steve Jobs, etc. Not the most cohesive narrative but fascinating stories

https://www.amazon.com/What-Dormouse-Said-Counterculture-Per...
> like we are stuck in a cargo-cult mentality where we are just doing things because that’s what the big companies do, and if it works for them it must be what we need to do.

Absolutely. They do leet code -- we must as well. Google is laying people off -- so must we. Steve Jobs was an asshole, I also must be an asshole, that's how you grow a great company.

> The question, which I’ve heard is a Facebook favorite, was “convert a decimal number to base negative 2”.

Assuming I don't care as much about the the interview and am just practicing, I would have asked "so how often do you folks, convert numbers to base negative two?"

> but fuck that question and just waiting for you to eventually arrive at the little trick to make it work.

That sounds like a "coffin"-type problem as per https://arxiv.org/pdf/1110.1556. You have to know the trick, or you might spin your wheels for 40 minutes.
No thanks, we don't need more leetcode-related stuff. It should just disappear.
I was thrilled when Love Death & Robots came out on Netflix. I hoped mature animation would pick up a bit in western media. That didn't happen unfortunately.

The pipeline you mention has been a key factor in my kids learning to enjoy reading. They went from anime to manga because the manga often runs ahead of the anime and they wanted more from the world. Then they started reading more novels. They skipped the light novel step, likely because there's very little availability at Barnes & Noble or local used book stores.

When the local theater runs Studio Ghibli or anime like Your Name I make a point to go even though I'm not too fond of the theater experience these days because I want more!
Would be nice if docs had a comparison between traditional scraping (e.g. using headless browsers, beautifulsoup, etc) versus this approach. Exactly how is AI used?
It sounds like there is some disagreement about who first used the term. I wouldn't be surprised if they're all telling the truth. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2010/12/09/who-co...
> While the justifications given are great for the consumer, I didn't see any reason for a manufacturer to sign on. [...] So, why should they relenquish that to the user?

It makes sense that the first ones to use this new standard would be Dell and Lenovo. They both have "business" lines of computers, which usually offer on-site repairs (they send the parts and a technician to your office) for a somewhat long time (often 3 or 5 years). To them, it's a cost advantage to make these computers easier to repair. Having the memory (which is a part which not rarely fails) in a separate module means they don't have to replace and refurbish the whole logic board, and having it easy to remove and replace means less time used by the on-site technician (replacing the main logic board or the chassis often means dismantling nearly everything until it can be removed).
When I was that age my teacher had a thing where reading something like 3 books got you out of a lot of homework and your parent had to sign a paper listing what you read and you turned it in.

As a kid who already hated school, and used reading as an escape from a pretty shit childhood, I was clocking in 5 books a week.

The teacher first accused my parents of lying that I read that many books, because it quickly got to double digits, but I was able to summarize all of them off the top of my head, so instead I was just forbidden from doing it altogether.

Not sure what the lesson is there, lol.
Apple is always honest but they know how to make you believe something that isn’t true.
Bandwidth doesn't vary much with speed (since people tend to maintain the same 2 second gap from the car in front of them), except at low speeds where the nonzero size of each car becomes significant.
> Is there a particular reason PostgreSQL cannot set up column migration itself out-of-the-box?

People haven't asked hard enough to the right people, I suppose. PostgreSQL is an open-source project, where wanted and needed features are supplied by willing individuals and companies, and vetted by the community so that the code base remains in good quality.

I just suppose no-one has bothered yet with implementing ALTER TABLE CONCURRENTLY to the point that it's been accepted by the community, though another reason might be because the induced metadata churn (only 1600 distinct user-defined columns available in each table at most) might become problematic with ADD COLUMN ... DROP COLUMN.
How does even a demented person justify this to themselves? It's a waste of time, money, joy, monkeys.
Pivot podcast host Scott Galloway: 'Tech bros conflate luck with talent'
> dongles fucking suck

Why?
Vioxx is fine. Just improper disclosures. Many patients who it was right for lost out because of the withdrawal